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^lMERIOXJS, afeOEGiLA. F
I TERMS:
•: Tl\ree Dollars a Tear;
( PAVAnLS 15 ADVASCE.
irvliaanhip,
"i Ware to eeU real eatate.
.. S»
.. 4 W
. 5 W ■
Professional Cards.
J.AWkTnS &. BURKE.
Jno.
D. CARTER,
SHY AT LAW,
Sappoee my little fogy,
Yoar doB shcwld break her head
ConMyon make it whole by crying
Till touteyea and bom are red?
And wouldn't it be pleasanter
To treat it as a joke,
Aadaay: ‘Tm flad twaa doUyh.
And not my bed that broke ?*
Suppose T?an
And tlit-rain
Will it clear off any a
Ikcsiuc too aetdj aad frown}
And wouldn't it be nioer
For toc to smile than poet.
And *o make sunshine in the house
AY Iwn thero is none -itL'.at ?
Sap:'«*e your task, my lhtle xaan,
Li rery hard to get.
For yon to ait and fru •
And wouldn’t it hr wiser
Than waiting like & dunce.
Io S® la
Im iearaTa^uSng at uixv.
Suppose that aoic-: toys hare a bar**
WL1 ii tire ton less while walking
T.» sav “It isn't lair'r"
And wouldn’t it be nobler
To ktepyour temper sweet.
! that? Only tot cents a glass; that can-
| not ruin a mam.
| “Three hundred and sixty-fire days,
I which, * multiplied by twenty cents,
! amounts to seventy-three dollar*. Three
I cigars a day, which yon know is below
; tout average of smoking, will amount to
I as ranch more, which makes one hun-
* dred and forty-six dollars. Fifty dollars
j would pav our cool and grocery bills
; now doe, and leave a balance of ninety-
' six dollars for baby, you and me. You
' know, ton, the time spent in drinking
i and smoking is worse than wasted, for
tobacco end liquor poison the system,
' the health, soften the brain, weaken the
nerves, aad Mag ruin
happy homes. There is a lack of tender-
FEBRUARY 34. 1871.
Number 1.
Vies as a Power.
It is really heart-reading: I© ob^
many devices ingeniously employed
cities to render men wretched and* d . _
and the few pteas insugurmted *• elevate ami,
make them happy- Tam whioh.w*ywe may
we are forcibly aad painfully twsUfrM of
man’s inhumanity to man. Evoy laudable
effort put forth for good afpt* with, strong
opposition: la rum, that destroys the natu
ral appetitios; pr poisonous decoctions, that
prey upon decaying health; in obscene books
xndprinls,and much of the weekly news
paper litataUrntnre, that aim to subvert vir
tue and debauch the Blind; in low exhibitions
that represent virtue living in the poor-house
and vice dressed in comely and dazzling at
tire, to draw youth down to certain
■te.lV •» a square acre of ground—, When the sun of prosperity’* shining,
2«9 feet on each side and jrou will 1 Aud a niau’a growing richer erery day—
have a square acre within an inch. When in ease and comfort reclining,
acre contains W golden success crowns bis war- -
4.840 rants vanli T Bqw friend* will then flock abdet hiai—
^ . A t ZT - . ' „ *’ ’ - Bat if fortune should happen to frown,
A aqj^ mtle contains GW ^rea. , idw quickly hell got the “could sidUer.”
. Iexsuro of distances—A mile is 5,280 feet, And be “kicked because he is down.* •>
length.
j, . How ionaly t:;« world will entile on him
. . ' ** j Who® life with success abounds;
W ree miles. j Hovr cordially. Uacdr Twill greet him
ith day’s journey is 1.155 yards— 1 As in pleasure he’s rilling around:
this iz^lf yards less than two-thirds of a j But then let reverse oVctake him,
( And his friend* both in country and town,
I Have not a kind sentence to cherish him,
Bat will “kick him as aeon as he’s down.”
neas in your tones to Bello and me when] capital that is employed in the pawnshop,
J your nerves are excited by drink. I for- • *nd jankshep, toenahle the thief and burglar
give you freely, but the sting is left ia
my heart"
Mary’s efforts overcame her and she
b—at into n pwm i— ten fit of wnfpspg. . :
The strong u»u trembled. “Am I
blind ? Is it possible I have wronged
av dearest treasures ?”
harbor and dispose of bis plunder :
gal fallent, that is subservient to such capi
tal, ever ready to ard in covering tip and di-
viding the plunder, and in securing. the re
lease of the transgressor; and in gambling,
that is deemed highly respectable on ’Change
hile dragging thousands do'
.< uJ suppose tin* world don'; pleasr
Kor the w*y sinw- people d<).
Do you thcik the whole creation
W:3 be altered ju»t for jon
.tad isn't it, iay boy or girl,
TL _• wi-ivt aad the Inri-i! plan.
Whatever cornea, or don't come.
FIGUKB3 WON'T LIE.
-•AXES WILIXiL
. , Vvls-tjeKTectA. may 18 tf.
FORT & HOLLIS,
y-.hnkys at law
A . • ^ heitors of Patents.
Uiivricu*, <itvm:iii.
r - - a over R. T.Byrd's store.
aprii atf
C. T. GOODE,
Attorney at Law
AMtllirUS. GEORGIA.
* i ,. r V. T. Davenport’a Dreg store, j
JACK brown, ^ j
AMKIilCUS, GA. “The 24th,” anawere<l the young wife,
c urt H. US.- a-.U» Jud»ce Sun- sadly.
frblS t5_ J James Carroll knocked the aahes from
N. A. SMITH, his cigar, held it carefully between the
t0 rnoy eat La ] thumb and forefinger of his left baud.
i of Sumter and land lo< iked thoughtfully into the fire
Circuit Court of Mary’* tired finger* showed no sign s o
xf t*v *r. u Dvge str.-et. nrxt to RepobB- weariness, but turned the hem of a aheet
■ ~ fob ia tf.. mecliaaicallv, then proceeded to 1 -aste it
SAM LUMPKIN, ^
“Belle will oe three years oju : he
ATTORNEY AT LAW, !said interrogatively.
j. ; t vxi ri. iuelotv house. j “Three, James," replied Mary, with-
\MERICUS GA. | OQk G 1 * * bright smile lighting
up her pretty, young face. .Tames give
. • ' Vr.'rJifT'iLW C Dr^'Lj Uf A Greene!; * f ew more whiffs at his newly consumed
cigar, but did not seem to enjoy it mud’.
A listener would have pronounced Mary
cool unloving, wife, that the genial
They mingled their tear*, and talked * n<i w%nt —° r that is mH witl * “ aore ^s 11 *
till a late hour, laying pl*n* for the fu- \ resorts, arrayed in purple and fine
, , T , ... • linen, alluring its victims to certain destruc-
ture; and James oegped forgiveness of' . . , ,
.... . ; tion and disgrace. Disguise the fact as we
her he had wronged. , ^ , ,, 6 . 4 .
^ . , , aar, ana nnpauiable astUe truth mav seem
•1l is not too lat* t° pro y e mj loTe ul 1 1# , hl BUS(J who h ,„ !<<n ^
strength, sad tlie penitent m.n ; «na so; taw „ iM ^ rItt< lbr due ok ,„.
Jt prove* . ’ farce of law. and the restraints imposed up-
t vein from that day, two bean-; on ?oe j e tj for the public welfare, yet crime.
with its numereus aids, has become aa or
ganized power among us, and is stealthily
r
J. A. ANSLEY,
AttOPIlGVS t! XjQ.'W i presence of her handsome husband,
Americus ' O-ea— i l ^ e rtlum ^ er baby’s birthday failed
uf Southwestern j to please.
v-hu tocoUwtioifof! LooktsW ou and listeners, do not al
ft lands and tin in- | way* look into the depts of the heart to
*dec®5* 1 1 See w bat trials and struggles are there.
tiful silver cups were brought home by
the’ happy father, once for Belle’s fourth
birthday, the other for the wife who
Lad saved him. Mary’s bore the inscrip
tion, “An angel saw me falling and lift
ed me up.*' Belle’s was also neatly en
graved : **A little child shall lead them. ’
Years have passed since then, and the
happy couple in the vigor of life on each
recurring birthday of Bdle, who is now
a young lady of eighteen, relate to her
the trials of their early married life,
the great happiness that has groi
self denial and justice.
The good wife and mother has kept;
■ilver bright, and not a meal has 1
and insidiously fortifying itself in opposition
to law and aad order, and wielding a dan
gerous influence against the well being of
every community.
While criminals are shielded by law mak
ers who owe their positions to the influence
and support of those classes -which are di
rectly interested in making or subverting
laws to perpetuate their unlawful callings,
we may indeed ask, when will the world
from i Rrow w * s «v an®'purer! Indeed so
powerful hare the criminal classes become,
that they exercise a dangerous and alnrming
control in politics demand and obtain high
, . , ... i places, and are largely represeted in our
l**o enu-n ot borne, bat tin*, cup. j ^
“ ^‘ c ' '‘ !iere j *““, ~ aIJ W »T -« slmdd.r ,hc .hou E h. ,t the v.r,
reminded of the promis« h<-Ud made j prot) , b l e M ntin l «.,r o fsn e h m«t b^omirg
| by political right, the law making power.
Every citizen in the enjoyment of any of
and so faithfully kept.
A Woman's Defei
the elements of wealth, proaj>erity and hap
piness is deeply interested in the future of
poverty vice and crime. Each wishing well
to the cause of humanity mast aid in promo
ting its objects, and necessarily assist in a
gradual decrease of poverty, the progenitor
of crime. It is an imperative duty of every
upright honorable and intelligent citizen to
accord aid, sympathy and assistance te the
various religious, social and fraternal organ
izations in our country, which are constant
ly and earnestly engaged in relieving the
distress and improving the condition of the
poor. It is the aim of these associations to
For myself, I should be thankful to
return, to the habits of our grand- f
mother*, buy n bonnet which would do
to wear ten vers ; have three dresses,
two for ever day and one for “ nice,’’
ft id wear them year after year, till they
wear out, without alteration ; also twine
up my hair in a plain wad at the back of
my head. * I should then have more
time for reading and study, and more
money to spend in books, pictures, and
ncruxr ocrar 50 »» thia instance. Another woman traveling, to say nothing of the unlimited J give tone and direction of ihe tendencies ° f
1 ,bo«e lift i- dl Btroshine woul i bav r ; time and mocev for dwug good. And I j *be mind, and rtguU'e Ih. ..il spirit of tfct
:dl»Ai.NJ5 & (ill nival, pronounced Mar. Cairo, I heartlMa. 1““” of ray mmaj women who would be rebellion, fce»rt.
AUOrneVS-at-LaW, 1 Poor thing : Slie’lmJ too muon Le«rt j “lj too b*ppj to tlirow aade the rreari- Too mnch cnuoi be ion, («r th, improre-
Ojua.ra, for thU world's trials. Her iceddin^ 1 someshncklmof fadiion. Bnt»lat wonld \ M ” di, “ n «f
« to tLepoUte. i dM ni nUitefal on.; ber hn.Und ; b. tha r«nU ? With the teteda. noi^ch^ettr A .hourend «iU. .he «d
Scje^'ide-ol of nmntr perfection. Hi, love, ! more been*; with the wife, . ceteetion of i equenee .f,srror .»d .h.n.eurel fr««.of
S2hSri.n^.pn.WI,wealth more to devolion on ibf part of her husband- !“• fin ,h * w«rld..tbm.^ end
I her tlmn all the treasures of the eertl.., r «“ lu to ° * ri ' to l« contemplated for n OB WI „ kumu , it "'“‘„ cot '“ t
Bnt a cloud arose to dim tLe brightness j moment I etnmk wnat I know ui t« ^ , h , ^erin S nf ourrsee, re
ef her sky. She soon made the dUcov- tdf -h.t I here Ken. I hare m,*U ^ „,j b „ rfEeU1 mJli , h ,„ w
err that her husband «n hnnmn. Tout -een to partfes teimUdr aad econommal-1 foan4 aMcUtogt „ ,b„ ^ ,
tlie love of wine, and irascibly of some- ' clad, and I was dc-spired and rejected j influence for good wherever raised,
thing stronger, filled hL« heart, as well a> 1 own; again, I have been more fash- 1 Qf ^ in»iuutions we reverently acknowl-
of his wife. He was not what | ionably and expensively attired, and I < e<lge the divine, unapproachable superiority
had more beaux than I knew what to do of Christianity.—lltnrt anJ Hand.
drunkard ;! with. By the way. why don’t some of
f the wise and sensible bachelors court
• U. BROWN
\TT0!l.\KY AT LAW,
f-»9- Georgia.
“y •' !'- 1 * attciiticn to a:! Luaiuesa’_the
. tv u-j»rc. nov '26 tf , t j je wor ]j calls an inU*m|>erate'iiiau—one
Goorje W. Wooten, s'**
m«USEY-AT-I,.UV,
iOW *T " ” ~ ; least r.v.j gin^es a day ; ahat had she to
j hope for in the year* to come 9
“I wish, Mary, I was able to make
, . . — Bt-lle a nret^-nt everv birthday in her Ufe,
Attorney at Law, hotjojino,it u nu i »do to get
AVERICUS, GEORGIA. atonga.itis."
J ■ liC Count ea of Maim “I know it, Jame*, meekly replied
; ; ’• w» btetef. Sc tiler *nd lx>olj. the wife.
,r ' .. • • «!ii, C r!TumN BuldiD* Xcxt t<t JAtaes was ill at Something in
‘♦•-rn.Lca.oe. ’ janSfoi' Mary’a cnuiiier disturbed him.
ftrsHA. .T “What makes you look so solemn and
CEOBSE w. KIMBROUGH, quiet, Mary ? Why not sympathize with
' Useful:
“KICK HIM WUKX HE'S DOWS.'
mUe- %
A day’s journey is 88 J miles.
A cubit b two feet.
A greil cubit is 11 inches.
A hand (horse measure! is four inches.
Apdfc is three inches.
A span ia lOj inches.
A space ia three feet.
Barred Measure—A barrel of
Let a nun ge; position or wealth.
Matters not—if by intrigue or fraud—
The world nods approvingly at him,
Anu hie acta will fondly applaud.
' What though he may be a great villain ’.
i With the Miupfo, the wise and the clown,
®‘ghs ; Wlille lie's up he’s a tip-to^ fellow
Bat they’ll “kick him iferer be’s down.’
A haiftri of pork is 200 poun.U __ . ^ ^
, , , V . , . When a man baa plenty of “greenbacks,
A barrel ot nee 000 pounds. i . . -. . , ... . ... ,
. . , . , *7 i And he* Iiea,tby and “festive and gav."
A barrel of powder 25 pounds. } Ht,'„ counted a “bulhr good chum.” then!
Vanoua weights and Measures—A ton of j And the crowd approves all he may say.
»und timber is 40 feet; of square timber is But just let him lose all his treasures,
o4 cubic feet. 1 Perchance, too, his health zuay bo gone,
A commercial bale of cotton is 400 pounds. to be nobody quickly,
A put of wool is »J0 pounds. A"' 10 bs ’^ d » 1 he '* ' ! o*.u"
A section of government land is C40 acres Wliat’a the use of being moral and honest,
(Imile.) ,gr - Or striving to be upright and tree ;
A liquid Ion i, 252 gsllons. ' r ° r u,llM3 * “*" " k >“ » r mousy.-
The world’s bound to ‘’put him right through.’
A box 16 by 164 inches and eight inches ^ T u . ^ ,
. ‘ , ILeyTi go for him certain and surtlv,
deep contains a bushel. j Fn>m the jockey to priest in his gowil
r m 1 And will stand ready to “snub” him,
Coax.—The season of the rear is again . . , . - , J
. . . • , * And “kick bun because he’s down. ’
approaching to prepare tor planting, and, ,
while I do not set myself up for a guide for! 0111 when wU1 lu * nViad ** re’fish-
othsrs, I tm v.iiliQg to giTe ay »d * ’"Off “>“=
, 6 *• l , That we d lore to do each other
others can accept or reject them, as they I would have them do to u*.
choose. As a general rule, circumstances j And if in “adversity’s ocean”
have to govern. I run my rows five feet i We are sinking and ready to drown,
apart for corn, and bed out with the •tsteel! Thrice blessed be the friend whose devotion
turn plow. When I plant the corn I run a' WiD help a mac npwlien he’e down.
subsoil in each water furrow, drop the corn •
and manure on the subsoil furrow and cover j _ .. . _ _
will, lb, double foot slock. When Ihe eon. i How O^ctioiu are Being BemOTed
ia up and ready for replanting run around \ from tlio James Ei>er
with the subsoil and plow out the middles !
with steel turning plows, snd then in eneh ! Ti,e K'e-hmond Whig gives an inter-
water furrow run the subsoil plow, these
subsoil furrows, in the water furrow, is the
antidote ugainst heavy spring rains. The
earth thus prepared will drink aQ ordinary
rains, without letting any escape. The next
plowing also should be deep, and after that,
the sweep alone may be used. There may
be better plans, and I hope there is, bnt this>
at present, is my favorite.
I neglected to say 1 drop the corn three to
three and a half feet apart in the drill.
Respectfully, Jas. T. Ellis.
'Focxd Out llts Mistake.—When Mr. J
Dodge electric physician was lecturing thro’
the State on the laws of boalth, he happened
to meet, one morning, at the breakfast table,
a witty son of Erin, of the better class. Con
versation turned outhe doctor's favorite sub
ject, as follows: “Perhaps you think I
would be unable to convince you of the dele
terious effect of tea and coffee !” “I don’t
know,” said Erin, “but I'd like to be there
when you do it.’’ “Well,” said the doctor,
“if I convince you that they are injurious to
your health, will you abstain from their use?
“Sure and I will, sir.” “Well, do you ever
experience a slight dizziness of the brain on
going to bed J” “Indeed, I do.” And a
•harp pain through the temples, in and about
the eyes, in the morning ?” “Troth I do,
air.” “Well,” said the doctor with an air of
assurance and confidence in Lis manner,
“that is te tea and coffee.” “Is it indeed
Faith and I always thought it was the whisky
I drank.”
Be Steadiest
Phillip Cook,
who shonU s*e fe»r ? , w »•— ■««. Lix.eid Tgv ros Sick Home,.—LinrevJ
At to. vud of three ywre he took et u.l m.rrv among the va»t army of -orb- not mIy , „ lu , Ue r „ to „aou Tor ,ick
mg girl. ’ They are drewed euaply, ami j ^ tot it „ „ CMdlai , T u , ef „,
»re eec.Uomed to babita of economy— o[ in3 , m „ jo „ %f lt< , maabranre peculiat to
They vonld ho glad ODOnglt of good j t j, e nrgt.o of rrepiratioa and digretios; it
homes, and woald make ejteellent wives. I .Li.ld, and lubricates the same; tranquihres
They are peisonnlly attrietive. and I ,be irritable rtalea of the farti, and fa.Ors
doubt not, are quite as refitted and intelU- healthy action. We have prescribed linseed
gent as the average of fashionable women. . lea in large quantities, during the past
Why ii there not a greater demand for month, for horses laboring under the pre-
tbem as wives, end why are not the I vailing influenza; they seemed to derive
Flora McFlimaey’sa drug in the market? much benefit from it. and generally drank it
Let the facts speak for themselves. Be . ■ r ‘*h avidity. Aside from the benefit we de-
not deceived, O, my brethren ! With rived f r0 m the action of mucilage and oil,
me and any voa know I have a hard j 5““ lhe = irom T° n *»“* ” 1 ‘ icl ‘ U “ "** '*» euuMrc ele-
tim’e to get'along, and that Belle can do H*® remedy.-refiese to par court to »ents are of some account, repeemlly when
. ... , umeiog. s ’ iwumier’s, frilLs and chlRuons, cud. given to the annuals laboring under roreuess
wtm P r n tl^r-™.- ~ £ i £*Ko orer «. caheo in hSmiona-, - *^utition, which ineaparf-
estiug account of Professor Miullefert’;
operations on James river. After des
cribing the sensation prodnoed by the
shock of an explosion under water,
which was followed by the upheaval of
broken timbers, mad and stone, and
resalted in the removal of two “cribs,”
about two hundred yards distant from
each other, it says : “The surface of the
river in eveiy direction was by this time
covered with fragments of huge timbers,
which lor nearly ten years have obstruct
ed navigation and perpetuated the ener
gy and earnestness of our Confederate
engineers. Where there were only three
feet water before, there are now
eighteen feet. There wore originally
twenty cribs placed in three rows across
the channel; of these nineteen have been
removed by Prof. Maillefert, and only
one remains, viz : that on which rests
the wreck of tlie Confederate gunboat
Northampton. This, although not in
the contract, will be removed ut on early
day. These cribs are pens 18 feet by 2o
feet, and are 28 feet deep. Their wooden
frames, which were safely secured by
strong iron rods, were constructed of
timber 24 inches by 18 inches, and were
filled with stone; the estimate for each
crib being over 400 tons. It usually re
quires four explosions to a crib, al
though yesterday three were foaud suf
ficient in one instance. These suffice
not only to break up the wooden frame
work but to create four craters in the
bottom of the river immediately at the
angles of “the crib” into which the stone
is thrown by repeated shocks, thereby
preventing it from becoming an obstruc
tion in the channel. All of the floating
timber and other debris is removed to
the shore, and snch logs ns are sobbed
and sink are fished up and similarly dis-
i poseti of. In addition to the obstrnc-
j tions named, Prof. Maillefert has re-
' moved from the channel at Dre vly’f
: to lus high | jj! u gr the wrecks of the Curtis Peck, twe
An English admiral, who
ation by his own steady r:
fond ©f relating that, on first leaving a hum- j all of which, except the steamer,” were
ble lodging to join his ship as a midshipman, filled w ith stone before being sunk. The
his landlady presented him with a Bible and
attorney at law,
& r **1* anApui
guiena, saying, “God bless you and pr<
per you my lad; and as long as you live,
•ver suffer yourself to be laughed out of
>ur money or your prayers.”
The young sailor earefnlD followed this
advice through life, and reason to rejoiee
that he did so; while thousands have regret
ted, when too late, that they have purs»d a ! of the wreck of the
different course. ; require, it is estimated, two days more;
itet Tt.nr UnH conru-im.s i, P i ut ‘Graveyard Bend’ about the same
. “ ' * ! time, and that at ‘Warwick’s Bari per-
ed down. Be true to yourself, and in the i i T _ *t.:_ a2 *77.
BP.. D.
_ _ give me the ' weshaJl-go
noviitf ! wood bill this morning, and Jones wants j Brening Post:
! to know when the grocery bill will lie i “
P- HOLLOWAY, l p*hh i d** 11 ’* like to bother you witlri Every person should cultivate
- Wkiwn'ti Milliuezy
WILLIAM A. GREENE,
XMXBICU8, GEORGIA
j hia friends of Azr.eiicn*
conntrv ia ail th* depart-
-* pTGk-soion. " aptlB-ly
Dr. J. B. TTlTTITTsE
J*-*ia tmder hi* servioes (in all the
W. f i U *" ,,f the Profe**ion) to the good
•, Au-nctn, and Sumter c-icntf, and so-
^acuanoe of the liberal patronage
-re ©estowed upon him.
in,'i!7T 4IU -auon given to Margery.
Drag Store of Dr. E. J.
n the house known as
. nearly opposite A. A. Adam*.
jene 8 tf
* r "- *i»viden<
D — these thiags. oolj I »«nt yon to nnaer-
a t lM T I S m I stand that aa much as I love onr little
Patt i s esoBOU.! girl, I can’t afford to make he presents.”
Mary’s color come and went. Tears
stole into her violet eyes and her heart
beat quick and fast. Her trembling
fingers guided the needle unsteadily,
and her stitches were long and irregular.
Three king years she had brooded alone
her husband’s weakness without a
word of reproof, and much as she dread
ed to speak, she knew that her time had
come.
‘I wish, dear James, I could econo-
:e in something and save money to
buy Our darling a present. It seems
cruel to neglect hex so soon.’
T know frothing yon could be more
prudent in, and you know I am as
nomiial as possible, don’t you ?”
very hard for the, lips that had
uttered only loving words of praise, to
mj no; but a strength not her own came
to her aid, and with a sweet, sad saQe,
the wife uttered her first rebuke:
‘So, James, I am grieved to say that
(fedthat in some things you are too
extravagant. It must be a sign of igno
rance, for I know if you realised it you
ould never wrong jour wife and child.”
James started from his seat His eyes
flashed and hisebeek paled. “For Hea
ven’s sake, Mazy, are you crazy T
“Not crazy, James, but too clear-head-
dfwo^Swi*-." Ate** the*
had rim-*'and bo vaa prepared to lis
ten, aha mot on in a clear, eonciae man
ner/laid before him the cense of her
bitter word.: ‘•Daring the laaJ jear
yon here drank at least two.glatec, of
'4 Uqaor a day, taren't yoo T*
Why, yen, I enppoee so. What of
from swallowing more solid food.
| the event of an animal becoming prostrated
! by inability to masticate or swallow food,
sense j linseed tea may be resorted to, and in ease of
hundred different ways, this j irritable cough, the addition of little honej
most fitting adjunct of the true lady or gen-! makes it, still more useful. In the latter
J*; S. B. HAWKINS.
F1CE »t Dr. Eldridco’* Drug Store.
D *.* r die MeUiodUt Church.
.fjj 1 *- Un tender the good people of
«*1 omnwy generaUr. K
Medical card.
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F ; SMITH mold inform U>
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d paasyssts ^
• Vmoiie llrfL Wb-re t, m2
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WM. A. GREENE “
1 ^Ja'^^teden;, tothe lomeff
a irs?? 1 .Hr Br.t. J. Kidndgo,
tleman is often tried. For instance, one is a
guest of a family where, perhaps the domes-
machinery does not runsmoothly. There
i sorrow in the house unsuspected by the
:er world. Sometimes it is a dissipated
son, whose conduct is a shame and grief to
Lis parents : sometimes a relative who* ec
centricities and peculiarities are a cloud on
the home. Or. worst of all, husband and
wife may not be in accord, and there may
be often bitter words spoken, and harsh re
criminations. In any of these coses the
guest ia in honor bonad to be blind to the
deaf, so far as people are concerned. If a
gentle word within can do any good, it may
well be said; but to go forth and reveal the
shadow of an unhappy secret to any one, eves
your nearest friend, is an aet of indelicacy
and *n can ness almost unparalleld. One*
the aacred procints of any home admitted
its privacy, sharing its life all that you i
and hear is a sacred trust. It is as really
contemptible to a gossip of such things a*
would be to steal the srilrer or borrow tl
books and forgst to return them borne.
form, it may be given to animals laboring
under acute or chronic disease of the urinary
apparatus, more especially the kidneys.
To rrrport Lin reed Tea.—Put a couple of
handsful of the seed into a bueket, and pour
a gallon and a half of boiling water upon it.
Cover it up a short time, then add a couple
of quarts of cold water, when it will be fit for
.—Am. Veterinary Jovrnil.
> Worn a nr Home*.'—A correspondent of
th« Country Gentleman recommends calomel,
in doses of six grains, repeated in forty,
eight boars—to be given at night ia chop
feed—as a perfect cure foe werzna hz ht
Another correspondent of the asms ]
advises as follows: Pat a handful of sifted
wood ashes into a quart bottle, and fill the
bottle eider vinegar. J* still foam like
ft glass of soda. It should be given to .the
horse that has worms the moment it foams.
Two botdes will enro the worst csm of woifrie.
For forty years, he says, he has never known
it to foil, when the remedy wo* applied at
Exekct.—We lore your upright, energeti
tea Pull them this way and the other, they
only bend but never break. Trip them down
and in a trice they are on their feet. Bury
them in the mud, and in an hour they would
be out and bright. They are not yawning
away their existence, or walking about the
world as if they had come into it with
half their soul; you cannot keep them down
—you cannot destroy them. They ar<
•alt of the earth. Who bnt they start any
aoble project ? They build our cities and
rear our manufactories; they whiten the
A with their sails, and blacken the heav-
with the smeke of their steam vessels
and fttrnaee fires; they draw treasures from
the mine—they plough the earth, Blessing
on them! Look to them, yeung men,* and
take courage; imitate their example, catch
the spirit of their energy. Without Ufo what
are yon geod for if it is passed idly away?
We sheuld ever measure life by life’s em-
eighteen feet water iu n channel two
hundred and fifty feet wide, in ninety
days, ending the 20th of the present
month. And. although the weather has
been such as to occasion all sorts of de
lays, lie will be able to complete it as
ad you vrill not only be respected by the
Orld, but have the approval of your own
conscience. See to it, that whatever you
lose, whether it be money, or place,
ntation,you do not lose courage, honesty,
lplicity, or truthfulness.—Young Reaper.
Wisb Ri le*.—Simeon, the distinguished
evangelical preacher ot the English Church
said that the longer he tried the more
he felt the importance of adhering to the fol
lowing rules:
1. To hear as little as possible whatever!
the prejudice of others.
2. To believe nothiug of the kind till I a
absolutely forced to it.
8. Never to drink into the spirit of Cl
who circulates an 111 report.
4. Always to moderate, as far as I ca
the unkindues* toward others.
5. Always to believe that if the other side
were heard a very different account would
be given of the matter.
haps less. In this connection,
gratified at being able to state by author
ity that the work of enlarging tlie Dutch
Gap canal is now nnder contract—the
'American Dredging Company becoming
the contractors, and operations will be
commenced early next month. The
canal is to be one hundred feet wide at
the botton and one hundred and fifty
feet wide at the top, with a depth of fif
teen feet.”
At this stage, our reporter asked the
name of this exquisite criminal. Mrs.
Miller declined to give it, saying;
“I should be ruined if I told. - AU my
chances would bo lost, and nobody
would believe me. I profited by her
instructions, and in three months are
stole and disposed of about twenty-one
thousand dolJaia’ worth of joweliy, token
in hotels and other places* I used gen
erally t > negotiate tho solo of the plunder
and the Unknown nearly always undo
the raid among tier fashionable acquain
tances. At lost after tho robbery of
Mrs. Surrogate Hutchins, eighteen
months ago, some one ‘gave ns away,’
aud we were all arrested, except the wo
man whose name I decline to give. Mrs,
entered the Lynch, the ‘fence,’ was discharged, and
| From the New York Sur, January 29.
' Remarkable Story of a Fash
ionable Female Thief.
| KLEPTOMANIACS IS VELVET, AND THUS
TENS Or THO VS AND IN PLUNDER— HOW
WEALTHY LADIES ARK PREYED UPON—
MRS. MART MILLER, THE ’‘CONFIDENCE
QUEEN. ” '
Yesterday our reporter paid another
visit to the Tombs, in order to test dour
ly as might be the history of a woman at
present lodged withiu it, charged with a
grave offence against the law.
The writer once
matron’s pleasant parlor. Here, iu place j i restored all the stolen property, giving
of Miss I reneh, we found the comfort- j checks for the value of such as was mis-
able person of Mias Foster. That good . i NW13 kept in the Tombs and cau-
little lady who would be more at home tinned to be silent as to the part of the
apparently with no sterner bora than • Unknown in onr affairs. We w»
those of a canary cage about her, and
with no more criminal charges thou some
sled* f clone ua cat, did the honors smiling
lv. Acknowledging with a cherry laugh
the tribute, to the exquisite neatness of
her parlor, she slammed her ledger and
ordered Miss Jenny DeForrest to be ad
mitted to an interview with her counsel.
At this a red haired, .slim, but evil-faced
girl slid down, with her clothes tumb
ling off her figure, and with a furitive
glance at the visitors, trotted off to the
counsel-chamber, where her advocate was
presumable waiting. Then Mrs. Foster
departed herself afid briefly was absent.
She returned with a companion, and said :
♦Thisis Mrs. Mary Little.”
Her companion was a slight woman,
neatly dressed in black, with a astraelian
saque covering her bosom. In her ears
she wore jet ear drops.. Her face was a
broad oval, the chin being small and well
proportioned. She had very large gray
■eyes, and their lids were red and swolen
with weeping. Her mouth was rather
course, and her teeth were not as good
as they doubtless once had been. But
her expression was intellectual, and
seemed to be fraught with great concern
at her lamentable situation. Neatly.dis
posed, in tho manner of a cap, she on
her head wore a white kerchief, which
added to the sombre raiment of her
attire, and her soft retiring carriage,
made her seem like some nun entering
the parlor of her convent
This demure person, whose mere ap-
sarance determined the respectal ility of
sr origin, and gave mute confirmation
of her strange recital, now lies ignobly in
jail on the charge of stealing jewelry,
worth in the aggregate some $2,000, from
Mrs. Bishop, at present resident with
her two daughters at the Westminister
Hotel. She had previously been in a
similar position of distress, some two
years before, when charged with purloin
ing jewelry worth in total value some
§20,000,from various fashionable persons,
including Mrs. Surrogate Hatchings.
Special interest was attached to the case,
because she escaped tlie penalty of the
crime so easily.
Before giving way to Mrs. Miller’s
story, strange as it is, we must be allowed
to preface it with a word about, first, her
extraordinary fluency aud purity of lan
guage—Anna Dickinson is far behind
her; and second, the singularly evident
genuineness and sincerity other tale.
One however purely prejudiced feels ini
voluntarily that this trembling, blue lip
ped woman, in her neat dress, with her
once comely face, her distressed aspect,
and her nervous deportment, is telling
the truth, the whole truth. Her story,
almost from its early flow, inspires per
fect confidence in its exactitude and pain
ful singularity.
She traced her life as follows: “I was
born in 1832, in Baton Rouge, Louisians,
where my father was wealthy, well known
and highly respected. I cannot give his
name, because it is one which had never
been dragged down into disgrace. My
father’s family have stood by me nobly,
and I should forfeit their regard by be
traying their connection with me. * My
mother died when I was yonng. Shortly
after her death I was sent to the Convent
of tho Visitation, Georgetown near Wash
ington, where I received a very excellent
education. After it. was completed I
to live in New York, and there I
met my first husband, Mr. Taylor. We
weTe married aud we lived happily to
gether. Ho was a railroad speculator,
and a rich man. He was compelled to
travel n great deal, aud I accompanied
him wherever he went We visited Chi
cago, St- Lonis, Cincinnati, Louisville
and all the great cities of the West By
Remedy foe Cbolbba ix Povltbt.—
Keep the chicken troughs well supplied with
red oak bark, renewing it at least once a
week. This forms on ooze in which tannic
acid predominates, and ia both a preventive
and core for chicken cholera.
A teaspoonful each of red pepper, gun
powder and turpentine, mixed with boiled
Indian meal, given aa a feed every other day
for ten days, it is said, will, in most , caste,
effect a core, if commenced trben symptoms
of the disease appear. The fowls, meantime,
must be kept in a dry skeltered hennery.
A Shaet Axswek.—A teacher wishing to
explain to a little girl the manner in whieb
a lobster casts its shell when it has outgrown
it saiJ^What do you do when you have oat
grown your cloths! You throw them aside,
don’t youT’ “OioJT replied the little on.
“wo let out the tucks.”
Cost op Raising Cotton.—-At the
New Orleans fair last April, the cost to
produce a pound of cotton was discussed.
The conclusion reached was, that oh the
treat alluvial Mils; In a good season afid
with close management, ten cents will
make.a pound; bat on, tho average up
land, and with the average, economy the
planter loses when he does not receive 15
cents per pound.
Ifiy'The local of the Colnmbns En
quirer reports the following case, which
occurred in that city :
An Amusing Case.—The following ia
eaid to have occurred a few days since in
Columbus, the “dramatis persone” be
ing two Dutchmen and a Justice of the
peace :
A, owed B, and promised tv make him
a pair of boots to cancel the debt. A,
waited a reasonable length of time and
no boots came. The other day while
drinking he met B, and asked, “You
make me dem boots yet, eL ?” B.,
A, *‘By tarn, you no intends to males
i,” by way of emphasis, slapped his
face, Whereupon B, went before one
of the city justices, took out a warrant into crime,
for A, and had him dragged before the
bar of justice. B was pat upon the
stand and testified that A struck him
twice. “You pees one tarn lie; I only
once,” chimed in A “Yon’s von
tarn lie,” retorted B. The scale
holder politely informed the. couple that
unless they desisted from snch compli
mentary epithets he would jail them both.
The law dignitary then asked the prison
er, A; if he bad any questions to ask the
witness. “Yea, I i*h, and it is.dis: I say
B, when ish yon goin’ to make tem
pootsF* B, replied, am goin* to
make tem pootfl as soon as I git de ledar,
dais when ish goin* to make tem pools. 1 *
“WeU, den,” said A, “dot’s all right;
Mr. Justice, I let’s him oft” snd so say
ing the prisoner started from the Court
Boom. ‘‘Hold,” said the Justice you are
the prisoner, and I can’t let you off un
less you giro a - hundred dollar bond.”—
Report says the bond was given, and
as the-exponents of “faderland wero
leaving, B, remarked to A
mj U*J«.in.]OT con«» tc
him whip you lik ter tifel." huYO a. chance.'
married career; my husband died, leav
ing me some property. On this I lived
comfortably a widow for some years. In
1859 I accompanied a party of friends to
Long Branch. With ns were Bishop
Smith, of Iowa, Father Dougherty, Bish
op Hughes, the editor of the Dubuque
Democrat, and several other distinguish
ed persons. We stayed at the United
States Hotel, and there mixed in tho beet
society. Comptroller Connolly and his
daughter Mrs. Hatchings, were among
onr acquaintances.
“It was nnder these auspices that I
became acquainted with my second hus
band, Mr. Miller. He was a lawyer, and
a partner of Hon. Patrick Callaghan.
We wero married that fall, and lived in
elegant style on Twenty-eight street,
Fourth avenue. My husband took to
speculating. His brokers were Jerome
k Kellogg, He made so much money
that he bought a splendid country house
on Byerson street, near Bedford avenue.
While living there he determined to bay
the Howland Farm, a well known estate
in Caynga county. We took $40,000
with us, and went there in 1863. The
negotiations were -incomplete, when he
received intelligence that his stocks were
failing, and that more money was need
ed by his brokers. He sent down the
$40,000, bnt it was too late, and we found
ourselves rained. That same December,
two days before Christmas, my husband
died, heartbroken and shipwrecked. For
some years after bb decease I supported
myself by contributing to newspapers
and magazines under*a nom de pltrme.
Then came the first mysterious plunge
>tel, a magnificent wo
man, whose accomplishments were ex
traordinary numerous. She was a wid
ow, and she was very beautiful. She
commanded an entrance into the very
beet society. She seemed over-burdened
with money, and dressed sumptuously.
I was at once fascinated with her.
There was 'something, mysterious about
her, though I could not discover what
it was. One day she told me her secret
She was a fashionable thief. Her family
was excellent Some of. them are in
office now, and are immensely rich.
8he herself was the mistress of a famous
politician. She could go anywhere, and
wherever she went the stole all the valua
bles she could. She told me htr’s was
not.« singular case, and . I discovered it
afterwards. I found, from the receivers
that numbers of fashionable ladies who
lived beyond their means, ami whom
rested ou Saturday, and the next
Wednesday tho Unknown left for Eu
rope on board tho Cuba. I was promis
ed my release, bnt was brought one day
into the Court of General Sessions, anil
there, in the presence of half a dozen
ofiicinbrwas toid-thxt owifig - to- popular
feeling it was impossible to discharge
me, but that zfiy sentence should bo
nominal. It was ono year in the Pen
itentiary. Iu two months I was pardon
ed for good conduct, -
I then went to live with my grand
mother, in the seventh ward. She is
a rich woman, residing in her own house.
For some time I lived honestly and
soberly. I had never, at any time, an
inclination te steal for A living: It al
ways came on me like an impales. Tho
case of Mrs. Bishop’s jewelry is so ex
traordinary that you will hardly believe
it Some parts of my story, though,
will be substantiated by witnesses.
“I went to the Westminister .Hotel to
call on a friend, who was absent, bat
expected to return very shortly.—
While 1 waited in the parlor a lady intro
duced herself to me, and began a con
versation which was kept up. She told
that her name was Bishop, and that
was a sister-in-law of General Bum-
side. She told mo sho was going ont to
dinner with her daughter that evening,
and, among other things, said that she
had a very large quantify of valuable
jewelry up-etairs in hor room.
When she went out to dinner, some
thing possessed me to go np to her room,
No. To. It was locked. A white man
servant was descending the stairs at the
time. I called him and asked him* to
open the door. Ho did so at once,' and
I entered, closing the door behind me.
rent to the trunks, and found the keys
them. Opening them, I discovered
ten thousand dollars worth of jeweliy in
side. There were rings, and bracelets,
and necklaces, and pins, and brooches.
Some of the gems were rabies and ame
thysts, but most were diamonds. I took
a pair of magnificent ear-rings and put
them in my cars. I covered my fingers
with rings, ami then wrapped some other
trinkets in a small handkerchief, threw
scarlet camel’s hair shall over my
shoulders and then walked home. The
next day I went out on Broadway openly
aud fearlessly, in the ’.stolen property.—
While walking down Broome street I was
met by Mr. Brockway, the landlord of
the Ashland House, where I was living
whon first .arrested. He said: ‘Have
you any jewelry to sell ’? Come, you’ve
been stealing again.’ Ho then summon
ed Detective LaBue, and I was captured
and taken before Kelso. Everything 1
took from Mrs. Bishop I returned in per-
on; as iu the caso before, the detective
ctained some of the jewelry. £ know
you will not believe me, though I tell
you solemnly tlie truth,J^that after I had
gone down stairs from Mrs. Bishop’s
room, I returned there and replaced
$900 worth of stolen jeweliy. Miss Bish
op will confirm this.
As far as I am concerned, I hardly
know how to feel. I hate to loathe dis
honesty. I can never tell a lie. Tlie
detectives all admitted to Mr. Kelso that
my word was indisputable, %ud yet I
have been guilty of theft. . I know noth
ing about their habits. Yet I feel a mys
terious inclination to rob and whenever
I have a chance. I never took anything
from a friend nor from a poor person.
I don’t know how to account for it. I
‘ y. Though I am not
rich, I have wealthy relatives in New
York and Brooklyn, and have always
lived very comfortably. I am not ex
travagant. Indeed I never made a dol
lar by my dishonesty. I feel that it
would be wicked to attempt to escape
conviction on the plea of kleptomania.—
Yet, I don't understand it, and 1 don't
know how to explain it”
This extraordinary woman, whose
presence and speech indicated the very
rarest and most perfect refinement, then
retired, with the gracious courtesy of a
ly, to her wretched whitewashed cell.
Our reporter ascertained that Mrs.
Bishop expressed the liveliest concern
for her, and has paid her a visit. An in
formality about her pass, however, bar
red her admission to the strange prison
er. Mrs. Miller’s son, a yonng man of
twenty, of unblemished integrity, who, is
qualifying* to become stenographic re
porter, waits on his unhappy mother with
admirable constancy.
Poisonous Gloves.—The following
from an English medical journal, con
veys a warning;
“Onr attention has been directed by
a respected correspoddent, to a-case
which heascribesdne to the wearing of
dyed gloves with some poisonous sub
stance. His patient (a lady) purchased
green colored gloves at a well-known
and respectable house. In none of tho
gloves was the dye permanent, for upon
the hand becoming heated, it was stained
to snch a degree that warm water would
scarcely remove it After wearing a few
pairs, for the gloves rapidly beoamo
shabby, the lady noticed a vesicnlar erup
tion presenting itself at the sides and
roots of the nails. This vosie&tion in a
few days proceeded to ulceration. Un
der suitable remedies the rash disappear
ed ; but upon tho lady resuming the
wearing of the gloves, the mischief re-
imeuced with renewed severity. Up-
onr correspondent examining the
glare* further, and analyzing a solution
prepared from them, he discovered the
existence of an arsenical salt, which Ut
cleared up the mystery of .the case
and tho nature of the dye.”
they
A. Genuine “Niooeb” in Congress
T last,—A Washington correspondent
writes under date 14th: “.A specimen
of the colored representation of the new
Congress appeared on the ’floor of the
Honse to-day in the person of Hon. B. B.
Elliott, of South Carolina, a genuine
African. He was^r some time in the
seat of hia predecessor, Judge Hoge, and
--—r general attention. The
members of tho House Ore
three-feurlhs white, but Elliott is a pure
black. The Republican members did
